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Early in Powderfinger's days, Bishop left the group for personal reasons while Haug and Collins stayed on. Haug joined collaborative group Far Out Corporation in the late 1990s with Grant McLennan and drummer Ross McLennan.

In 2004, Powderfinger decided to go on hiatus and Haug and Collins both decided to begin families. During this time, they reconnected with Bishop, started playing together and decided to write some music. Before long the group had named themselves The Predators and were signed to Dew Process, a label begun by Powderfinger's manager Paul Piticco which released records by other Powderfinger side projects as well. The Predators recorded their debut EP Pick Up the Pace for the label and it was released in July 2006. For live shows they were joined by Ross McLennan on drums to enable Bishop to concentrate on singing.

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Brisbane
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Brisbane is the capital of and most populous city in the Australian state of Queensland, and the third most populous city in Australia. Brisbanes metropolitan area has a population of 2.35 million, the Brisbane central business district stands on the original European settlement and is situated inside a bend of the Brisbane River, about 15 kilometres from its mouth at Moreton Bay. The demonym of Brisbane is Brisbanite, one of the oldest cities in Australia, Brisbane was founded upon the ancient homelands of the indigenous Turrbal and Jagera peoples. A penal settlement was founded in 1824 at Redcliffe,28 kilometres north of the business district. The city was marred by the Australian frontier wars between 1843 and 1855, and development was set back by the Great Fire of Brisbane. Brisbane was chosen as the capital when Queensland was proclaimed a colony from New South Wales in 1859. During World War II, Brisbane played a role in the Allied campaign. Today, Brisbane is well known for its distinct Queenslander architecture which forms much of the built heritage. It also receives attention for its damaging flood events, most notably in 1974 and 2011. Several large cultural, international and sporting events have held at Brisbane, including the 1982 Commonwealth Games, World Expo 88, the final Goodwill Games in 2001. Prior to white settlement, the Brisbane area was inhabited by the Turrbal and they knew the area that is now the central business district as Mian-jin, meaning place shaped as a spike. The Moreton Bay area was explored by Matthew Flinders. On 17 July 1799, Flinders landed at what is now known as Woody Point, in 1823 Governor of New South Wales Sir Thomas Brisbane instructed that a new northern penal settlement be developed, and an exploration party led by John Oxley further explored Moreton Bay. Oxley discovered, named, and explored the Brisbane River as far as Goodna,20 kilometres upstream from the Brisbane central business district, Oxley recommended Red Cliff Point for the new colony, reporting that ships could land at any tide and easily get close to the shore. The party settled in Redcliffe on 13 September 1824, under the command of Lieutenant Henry Miller with 14 soldiers and 29 convicts. However, this settlement was abandoned after a year and the colony was moved to a site on the Brisbane River now known as North Quay,28 km south, chief Justice Forbes gave the new settlement the name of Edenglassie before it was named Brisbane. Non-convict European settlement of the Brisbane region commenced in 1838, German missionaries settled at Zions Hill, Nundah as early as 1837, five years before Brisbane was officially declared a free settlement. The band consisted of ministers Christopher Eipper and Carl Wilhelm Schmidt and lay missionaries Haussmann, Johann Gottried Wagner, Niquet, Hartenstein, Zillman, Franz, Rode, Doege and they were allocated 260 hectares and set about establishing the mission, which became known as the German Station

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Australia
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Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands. It is the worlds sixth-largest country by total area, the neighbouring countries are Papua New Guinea, Indonesia and East Timor to the north, the Solomon Islands and Vanuatu to the north-east, and New Zealand to the south-east. Australias capital is Canberra, and its largest urban area is Sydney, for about 50,000 years before the first British settlement in the late 18th century, Australia was inhabited by indigenous Australians, who spoke languages classifiable into roughly 250 groups. The population grew steadily in subsequent decades, and by the 1850s most of the continent had been explored, on 1 January 1901, the six colonies federated, forming the Commonwealth of Australia. Australia has since maintained a liberal democratic political system that functions as a federal parliamentary constitutional monarchy comprising six states. The population of 24 million is highly urbanised and heavily concentrated on the eastern seaboard, Australia has the worlds 13th-largest economy and ninth-highest per capita income. With the second-highest human development index globally, the country highly in quality of life, health, education, economic freedom. The name Australia is derived from the Latin Terra Australis a name used for putative lands in the southern hemisphere since ancient times, the Dutch adjectival form Australische was used in a Dutch book in Batavia in 1638, to refer to the newly discovered lands to the south. On 12 December 1817, Macquarie recommended to the Colonial Office that it be formally adopted, in 1824, the Admiralty agreed that the continent should be known officially as Australia. The first official published use of the term Australia came with the 1830 publication of The Australia Directory and these first inhabitants may have been ancestors of modern Indigenous Australians. The Torres Strait Islanders, ethnically Melanesian, were originally horticulturists, the northern coasts and waters of Australia were visited sporadically by fishermen from Maritime Southeast Asia. The first recorded European sighting of the Australian mainland, and the first recorded European landfall on the Australian continent, are attributed to the Dutch. The first ship and crew to chart the Australian coast and meet with Aboriginal people was the Duyfken captained by Dutch navigator, Willem Janszoon. He sighted the coast of Cape York Peninsula in early 1606, the Dutch charted the whole of the western and northern coastlines and named the island continent New Holland during the 17th century, but made no attempt at settlement. William Dampier, an English explorer and privateer, landed on the north-west coast of New Holland in 1688, in 1770, James Cook sailed along and mapped the east coast, which he named New South Wales and claimed for Great Britain. The first settlement led to the foundation of Sydney, and the exploration, a British settlement was established in Van Diemens Land, now known as Tasmania, in 1803, and it became a separate colony in 1825. The United Kingdom formally claimed the part of Western Australia in 1828. Separate colonies were carved from parts of New South Wales, South Australia in 1836, Victoria in 1851, the Northern Territory was founded in 1911 when it was excised from South Australia

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Powderfinger
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Powderfinger were an Australian rock band formed in Brisbane in 1989. From 1992 until their break-up in 2010 the line-up consisted of vocalist Bernard Fanning, guitarists Darren Middleton and Ian Haug, bass guitarist John Collins, the groups third studio album Internationalist peaked at No.1 on the ARIA Albums Chart in September 1998. They followed with four more studio albums in a row, Odyssey Number Five, Vulture Street, Dream Days at the Hotel Existence. Their Top Ten hit singles are My Happiness, On My Mind and Lost, Powderfinger earned a total of eighteen ARIA Awards, making them the second-most awarded band behind Silverchair. After the release of their first DVD, These Days, Live in Concert, and the compilation album Fingerprints, The Best of Powderfinger, 1994–2000, the group announced a hiatus in 2005. The June 2007 announcement of a nationwide tour with Silverchair, Across the Great Divide tour. Powderfinger were involved in philanthropic causes, in 2005, they performed at a WaveAid concert in Sydney, to help raise funds for areas affected by the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake. Another performance at the Sydney Opera House in October 2007 raised funds for breast cancer victims, one aim of their Across the Great Divide Tour was to promote the efforts of Reconciliation Australia, and awareness of the gap in life expectancy between Indigenous and non-Indigenous children. In April 2010 Powderfinger announced that they would be breaking up after their Sunsets Farewell Tour, on 13 November 2010, they played their last concert, signifying their disbandment. In November the following year, rock music journalist Dino Scatena and the published an biography, Footprints. Powderfinger were formed in 1989 by Steven Bishop on drums, John Collins on bass guitar and Ian Haug on guitar, the Eternal, The Vibrants and The Fossils were other Brisbane-based outfits. The bands name is from Youngs song of the same name, despite their popularity in Brisbane, when playing a heavy metal gig in Newcastle in 1990, Powderfinger were booed off stage. Fanning took over the role of vocals from Haug and also provided guitar. Late in 1990, Jon Coghill – another university student with Fanning and Haug – replaced Bishop on drums, Bishop later worked in London-based bands before returning to Brisbane where he was a member of Moonjuice and then The Haymakers. Powderfingers final line-up change was in 1992 with the addition of Darren Middleton on guitar, keyboards, Powderfinger initially performed cover versions of other artists songs, but gradually developed by writing and performing their own material. In August 1992, the group self-funded a seven track self-titled extended play, also known as the Blue EP, on their own Finger label and it was produced by Leroy Bath and Ian Taylor, and recorded at Broken Toys Studios, Brisbane. Their second EP, Transfusion, was issued in September 1993, at that time, Simon McKenzie of Time Off noted they were hoping the major label will put a bit of weight behind the disc, but its not as though theyve signed a record deal or anything. McKenzie felt the EP showed they were wanting to get heavier and louder for a long time, the five tracks include Reap What You Sow, which reached the No.1 spot on the ARIA Alternative Singles Chart, replacing Nirvanas Heart-Shaped Box

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John Collins (Australian musician)
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Michael Jackson Collins is the mainstay bass guitarist for Australian rock band Powderfinger since 1989. He is one of the members of the band, along with guitarist Ian Haug, forming at their high school. Powderfinger has released seven albums, a greatest hits album. After they released their best of album, Fingerprints in 2004, Collins is often referred to as J. C. by his fellow band members, as they are his initials and to distinguish him from the groups drummer Jon Coghill. Initially, the nickname was given to him following the groups song JC from their album, Double Allergic. The APRA Awards are presented annually from 1982 by the Australasian Performing Right Association

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Ian Haug
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Ian Haug is an Australian musician best known for being the lead guitarist, songwriter, and backing vocalist in the rock band Powderfinger from its formation in 1989 until its breakup in 2010. He is presently a member of The Church, Powderfinger was formed in 1989 by vocalist and guitarist Ian Haug, bass guitarist John Collins and drummer Steven Bishop, who took their bands name from the Neil Young song Powderfinger. Before the bands formation, Haug had played in other Brisbane-based outfits, the band later sought an extra guitarist, Bernard Fanning, who Haug had met in a university class. Fanning took over the role of vocals from Haug, and at the same time Jon Coghill joined. Powderfingers final line-up change came with the addition of guitarist Darren Middleton, the line-up of Coghill, Collins, Fanning, Haug and Middleton has remained unchanged since 1992. Haug and Grant McLennan formed the Far Out Corporation in 1996 and made one record -, during a hiatus in Powderfingers career, Haug worked on a side project, The Predators, with Collins and original Powderfinger member Steven Bishop on drums and vocals. During all live Predators shows Ross Mclennan played drums while Steven Bishop stepped to the front of the stage, in April 2010, Powderfinger announced it would disband after their final tour in September–October. In 2004, Powderfinger decided to take time off to allow the band members to begin families. In this downtime Haug formed The Predators with the original Powderfinger lineup of drummer/vocalist Steven Bishop, the band, like the other side projects for Powderfinger, was signed to the Dew Process record label. The Predators released a six track EP in 2006 and were joined live by drummer Ross McLennan, in 2007, Haug reunited with Powderfinger to release their sixth studio album Dream Days at the Hotel Existence. They followed with their studio album, Golden Rule in 2009. In April 2010, Powderfinger announced it would disband after their tour in September–October. Haug then toured with the band in the United States in 2015 and 2016, the APRA Awards are presented annually from 1982 by the Australasian Performing Right Association